Contents

Links to Reports
and Articles on LDDC's Human Resources policies and programmes in it closing
years. Papers provided by the Corporation's Director of Personnel
and Administration.

Some
of the papers are in Acrobat .pdf format and to view them you will need
an Acrobat Reader. This can be obtained free of charge by clicking the
"Get Acrobat Reader" icon opposite.

IT was a mark of the huge dedication
and commitment of its staff that the LDDC managed successfully to run
a huge programme right to the end of its life in 1998 and to leave the
scene with what it is now acknowledged by its successors to be a minimum
of trailing wires for them to resolve.

With dissolution looming everyone faced the certainty of redundancy.
To retain the experience of its people (most of them very marketable),
and to sustain motivation, the Corporation adopted a package of human
resources policies which proved to be such a success that it is still
talked about in professional HR circles.

Architect of the programme was David Lowman, the Corporation’s
Director of Personnel and Administration, himself an LDDC veteran having
joined the Corporation in 1982. He has kindly provided to following
papers from his collection. They are reproduced here in the hope that
they will be of general interest to students of Docklands history and
also, perhaps, as a useful case study for HR professionals:

Final Personnel Annual Report - 1 April 1997 – 31
March 1998

- Main Report (Alt+2)(Acrobat 233k)

- Appendices to Main Report (Alt+3)(Acrobat .pdf 265k)Note: To preserve the privacy of former members of
the LDDC’s staff, and because not all material is of ongoing interest,
some Appendices have been omitted or abridged. To minimise
loading times the data in some charts is shown in tabular form and
the charts in the original Appendix F have been omitted.

Slide Show about Personnel Policy
in the Corporation’s closing period (Alt+4)(Acrobat
.pdf 128k)

From The Top (Alt+5) an article
by Carole Pemberton first published in The Guardian on Saturday 21st
March 1998. (Appendix O to the Final Personnel Annual Report (HTML 13k)

Health before Sickness (Alt+6)
– 1998 article in People In the Public Sector (Appendix P to
the Final Personnel Annual Report) (HTML 45k)

Completion Update 11 (June 1997) (Alt+7).
Text of one of the newssheets issued by the LDDC’s Completion
Team, in liaison with Personnel, to keep staff up to date with the
completion programme.(HTML 66k)

David now works as an independent HR consultant and can be contacted
by E mail: Click Here